Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Aug 8th - Outfit #8 - Beige and Chaircat of the Board

I slept very poorly last night and only got about 2.5 hours' sleep. I've just gotten up from a nap and am making dinner (mental note: don't burn the stuffed peppers).

Today, I wore this:

It's beige! and probably one of the more boring things I own in my closet. Or, at least I would have said that, until I did my neutral month in June and then discovered that this is called a "basic neutral." Yup.

I bought this dress in Vancouver at a little consignment shop on West 4th Ave on one our anniversary trips in March. It was $21.00 and is by Reitman's (a mall shop, same place as where I got the teal pedal pushers from last month).

Khaki/beige is the toughest neutral there is; it's easy to work with varying shades of browns, greys, olives, those lovely rich oyster/mushroom hues, but khaki drains the color out of everything. I love browns, but I have given up on khaki. More power to you for trying!

ROFL at Vizzini!! you know what they say--dogs have owners-cats have staff!!I really like the dress (the whole outfit) It's basic enough that you could change it up depending upon the accessories-wearing a cardi or jacket, etc.

Sheila: Yes, sometimes you wonder about an 'inexpensive' garment in what might be a boring colour, but it did force you to 'pick it up a notch' and I like what you did - you met the challenge with the 'bling'. Thanks for showing us just how we can do something like that by 'collecting' goodies!I hear you had some rather wild weather on Tues. evening. We did not, but it is cool today and rather muggy!Peg - UI

The dress is a fabulous basic to dress up with accessories. I'm actually really sad my shirt dresses got to be too small on me. You really rocked it with your accessories. You have so many unique and original accessories that it completely transformed this dress.

Hooray for tasty dinners! And silly kitties. Our cats will cross their paws when they sit down. I call it "Fancy Cat" Vizzini looks like he should be talking like The Most Interesting Man In The World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U18VkI0uDxE

Hope you get more sleep tonight - those nights are no fun. This is the second shirt dress I've admired tonight. Thrifting one is on my wish list. They seem so versatile, and I love the bright pops of color with yours.

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